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Working-Class Women and Television Fiction Uses: Can Subaltern Voices Speak of Sexuality?

Year: 2019

Type: article

Abstract: We reflect how heterosexual working-class women, of different generations and ethnic groups, in Brazil’s southernmost region, make representations of sexuality connecting sex and affection. It seems that sexuality is more of a problem to be faced than a pleasure to be lived, although the mentalities (Ariès 1990) of working-class women in inner Rio Grande do Sul relate conformity and resistance to the patriarchal order. The accounts of appearance, manners and sexual behaviour show that family, work, school and television fiction shape a symbolic capital extracted from their class and gender habitus (Bourdieu 1999; Skeggs 2004). Such accounts – which we had obtained during two years of fieldwork and through individual sociological profiles (Lahire 2004) – present richness of material for the analysis of lived experiences and of the weight of social structures on personal lives.

Source: Iberoamericana – Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies

DOI: 10.16993/iberoamericana.449

Authors: Veneza Mayora Ronsini, Sandra Depexe, Lúcia Loner Coutinho

Institutions: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Nottingham Trent University, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul

Language: English

Topic: Gender and Feminist Studies

Subfield: Gender Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Gender equality, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2986338337

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